So tonight was the third night, for me, of Orbital’s Green/Brown tour. Friday night was Birmingham and last night was London.
So another day another early start, I left home about 10:20 and headed to pick up Aimée, Lucy and Badger from Jane's house. Jon-Michael had already l...
So tonight was the second night, for me, of Orbital’s Green/Brown tour. Last night was Birmingham, before I start on today this post has got a message for Birmingham, where was your bass?
So the day started early, eventually I managed to rally The Age Travellers (the group o...
So tonight was the first night, for me, of Orbital’s Green/Brown tour. They have already played Exeter and Southampton, I’m also going to London and Nottingham.
The drive from London to Birmingham was an absolute nightmare and what should have been 2.5 hrs took 5hrs. When Lu...
Today was our last day in Mexico again we had breakfast at Muss Cafe and then got our taxi to Oaxaca Airport for our last night before we flew home.
Our last hotel was Fiesta Americana Viaducto Aeropuerto, which as the name suggests was pretty close to the airport to make ou...
Today was our last day in Oaxaca and so after breakfast at Muss Cafe we went to buyer some souvenirs and presents.
After this we went back to Sabina Sabe for more cocktails again the cocktails were fabulous.
In the evening we went to La Azotea a roof top restaurant, the views were amazing but the food fell well short, style over substance. After food we tried to get into the Sevla cocktail bar but for some reason I didn't understand so instead we went to Muss Cafe where they have a roof top bar. We sat outside on the roof drank cocktails and watch a lightning storm in the clouds.
Today was our third Tour and final tour in Mexico El Tule, Mitla, and Hierve el Agua Tour with Mezcal. This time we were picked up from our hotel. Although they turned up 30 minutes before they said they would and we were just about to go get coffee and breakfast. Susan's po...
We had done some research before our trip and decided that we'd do a cookery course in Oaxaca. We decided to do the Casa Crespo Mexican food course.
We walked up the road to Casa Crespo, about 15 minutes, and arrived a few minutes early so we sat in the shade in the square o...
Today was another day of transferring, this time from Mexico City to Oaxaca City (in the UK this is written Wahaca).
The taxi from the airport was simple enough and we had just over an hour to wait before we set off. The flight was super smooth, just over 45 minutes, and we ...
Today was our last day in Mexico City and we still weren't feeling 100%, so a chilled day in our apartment.
After a long lie in bed, I got up and went to investigate the coffee shop we walked past on the way back from the Argentinian restaurant. Their coffee was excellent.
A...
Today was our second Tour in Mexico City with Get Your Guide this time to Xochimilco, Coyoacan, and Frida Kahlo Museo. This is the tour I was most excited about as we also got to ride on a boat. This time there was no protests about the government so other than the rush hour...
Today we had a relaxed day to try and regain some of our strength, I started off finding a coffee at Ukiyo café which was wonderful. Then Susan and I went to Saks which just so happens to be the closest restaurant to our accommodation. There was a huge queue and we were told...
Woke up this morning feeling must better, which is great news as we had organised a day trip to Teotihuacan with Get Your Guide. It started super early as we needed to meet at Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel at 8:30am.
When we got there the hotel was right by the The...
Day 6 we were mostly transferring from Mazatlán back to Mexico City via Monterrey. The morning started with another coffee from Coffee Break Mazatlán.
We had arranged a transfer back to the airport with a friend of Britza, which was super smooth, everything she did for us wa...
Woke up feeling much better, still not 100% but way better. Today we went for a walk down to the beach and into Centro Historico in Mazatlán so we could see it in day light.
The seafront was so much quieter that eclipse day only like 10% of the people on the previous day.
Th...
Today was the eclipse day, pretty much the main reason that we made this trip to be honest. When we woke up both of us were felling pretty shitty (pun intended). So we decided that we weren't going to make the eclipse breakfast that we'd booked on a roof top of a restaurant ...
Luckily last night I found the Japanese Grand Prix on Mexican TV. The race started at 11pm local time, although it did not help that on the first lap there was a crash and the barriers needing repairing. The commentary on BBC radio just said "I bet all those who got up at 5a...
After an early morning walk around a very quiet Centro Historico, where I stumbled upon a discotheque, still pumping a cross between Mariachi and Techno, the patrons tried to persuade me to join them.
When I returned Susan and I jumped into an Uber to find Dave’s home bread ...
After a long (14 hour) flight via Toronto we eventually got to our hotel at 12:30 in the morning and went straight to bed exhausted.
After a few hours sleep we had some breakfast at the hotel, mediocre.
We then went to find coffee and cash, around the corner 40m from our hot...
Two things happened today (1 April 2024):
I listened to episode 609 of Shoptalk Show
Second I read Don't modernize your code just for the heck of it.
I'm a big fan of both the podcast and Chris's daily developer newsletter.
Today the kind of both told a similar message. S...
Last night I went to see Yard Act at Hammersmith Apollo. This was the second time this year seeing them, the first was at Pryzm Kington for their Album launch of Where's my Utopia.
Last nights gig was brilliant and I'd rate it 5/5. The band were on top form and the crowd wer...
The <head> HTML element helps describe to the browser what is going on in a web page. Here I describe what those things are, what they do, and why they are important.
The essentials
The following tags must be in the <head> and in the correct order.
character set
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While designing my new site, I am first focussing on mobile first strategy, I want to learn and showcase ideas.
So I have decided that I want to animate the menu on mobile to make best use of the screen. Here is a small video of what I'm trying to achieve.
Logo starting poi...
So I've now started building a new site for a company that I am setting up and I wanted to make sure that the favicon is an SVG.
What is a favicon
A favicon is a small image that sits in the tab of your browser, usually the company logo.
Example of favicons, this shows BB...
Well, when I say built, what I actually meaning is building.
By no means is this blog finished and I don't expect it to be finished anytime soon, if ever.
So why have I built (building) this:
Writing
So I can write about what I'm passionate about, you know:
Music
Food
Books...
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